Aryaka Delivers SASE, SD-WAN Managed Service
Aryaka today unveiled a managed service, dubbed Aryaka Prime EZ, that combines the capabilities of secure access service edge (SASE) and a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) into a single offering.
At the same time, the company is revamping its portfolio to provide additional services at a lower cost based on the public internet alongside an existing private backbone network.
Shashi Kiran, chief marketing officer for Aryaka, said unlike the Layer 2 offering, the company’s Layer 3 offering comes without any WAN optimization capabilities. As such, it is better suited for applications that are not as latency-sensitive as other mission-critical applications, he noted.
The managed SASE offering, scheduled to be available in January 2022, relies on the L3 private core. It is based on the SASE platform Aryaka gained via the acquisition of Secucloud earlier this year. Initial capabilities include secure web gateway, firewall-as-a-service and web filtering capabilities.
Both the L3 and L2 backbones are connected via 40 points of presence (PoPs) that Aryaka has set up in various data centers around the globe. A built-in Aryaka FlexCore capability allows customers to map their sites to either a public or private core based on performance or cost considerations, added Kiran.
Aryaka today also added a higher-performance managed SD-WAN service, dubbed Aryaka SmartConnect Pro, that is based on its L2 backbone alongside a lower-cost option, dubbed Aryaka SmartConnect EZ, which is based on the L3 backbone. Those service options will be available late in the first quarter of 2022.
The company also revealed that it is making AppAssure, a set of observability and control tools that tools can be used to manage more than 3,500 applications, available in January at no additional cost.
Finally, Aryaka is also moving to simplify pricing and packaging of its service using a “T-shirt size” pricing model that is similar to the way many IT organizations already consume cloud services. The company, however, will continue to provide a-la-carte options when required. Aryaka is also adding a silver tier service level agreement (SLA) that is designed for applications that don’t require the 99.999% response times provided by the gold tier of the Aryaka services.
Kiran said that for many organizations that now need secure WAN connections for a larger number of employees working remotely it doesn’t make sense to require them to pay for separate SD-WAN and SASE services. Few organizations want to provide access to an SD-WAN that isn’t inherently secure, he noted.
In fact, as more organizations reconsider their IT strategies heading into 2022, many more of them are going to conclude that relying on virtual private networks (VPNs) to access applications simply doesn’t scale, noted Kiran. Many of those VPNs also rely on protocols that are not as secure as SASE-based services, he added.
Gartner, Inc. is forecasting the total connectivity and managed services market will reach $150 billion in 2024, with managed SD-WAN services growing at a 28% compound annual growth rate (CAGR). The SASE market is forecasted to grow 36% on a compound growth rate through 2025.
Most organizations are going to consume a wide range of networking services throughout the rest of the decade. The challenge now is determining which applications require what level of performance and security at an affordable price point.
